How Covid-19 Changed Hideo Kojima’s Vision for ‘Death Stranding 2’

Death Stranding 2 Also presents Marinelli’s wife, Alissa Jung: “I was also looking for someone to play Lucy, but in the middle of the pandemic, it was not easy. One day, Luca asked me if I had found her “counterpart”. I said no.

Worlds in Death Stranding 2

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Among the favorite Kojima scenes filmed for Death Stranding 2He mentions a blow by Marinelli and Jung: “Luca, meanwhile, turned the series Mussolini: Son of the centuryDirected by Joe Wright. When I gave him the role he was beautiful, he looked like a young Alain Delon. But when I scanned him, he had changed: I asked him what had happened. He replied, “I’m big to play Mussolini. We couldn’t do much, so we scanned it as it was.

“A year later, when the movement was captured, he had changed again. I thought, “Oh my God, it is not the Luke that I expected”, but we then resolved it numerically. It was a problem, but what he pulled is really good! Most scenes with Alissa and Luca are just between the two, and the interesting thing is that because they are husband and woman in real life, they have incredible chemistry.

“The theater came from the theater, and Alissa is a director as well as an actor. Sometimes she tried to take over too! We fired on the SIE studio in Los Angeles. It’s a huge studio, almost like a big set of Hollywood. Me and some staff members went to manage the shooting, but there were many other people, including technicians, make -up artists and others. When Luca started playing, too, everyone, I never happened. Before.”

The music of Death of death

Kojima games also impress with their beautiful soundtracks, and Death Stranding 2: On the beach is no exception. One of the star artists of the new title is Wooden woodAnd the director of the game said that he had met her by chance in Paris in 2020, when the artist wanted to introduce himself, being a fan of Kojima, playing one of his songs. Kojima was also struck by Woodkid’s musical clips, which have atmospheres like that of Death of deathAnd Kojima decided to contact him to make him work on certain songs for the soundtrack of the second chapter.

Music was an important heritage to continue, especially after the death of Ryan Karazija from Low Roar, whose musical style had deeply marked the first chapter. Kojima explained that he had also included unpublished songs of low roar in the new game, sent to him by the singer’s family.